Posts Tagged ‘ MIT

Sensing the Unseen – John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures

This yearlong seminar will explore how scholars in the social sciences and humanities study the unseen. Seeking to join more familiar attention to material culture with an innovative focus on immaterial culture, we pose the following questions: How should we describe the similarities and differences between that which is invisible and that which is as yet unvisualized, that which is unrepresented and that which is, perhaps, unrepresentable?

via Sensing the Unseen – John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures.

TED: MIT Students Turn Internet Into a Sixth Human Sense

TED: MIT Students Turn Internet Into a Sixth Human Sense — Video

By Kim Zetter February 5, 2009  |  12:59 pm  |  Categories: Miscellaneous

LONG BEACH, California — Students at the MIT Media Lab have developed a wearable computing system that turns any surface into an interactive display screen. The wearer can summon virtual gadgets and internet data at will, then dispel them like smoke when they’re done.

Pattie Maes of the lab’s Fluid Interfaces group said the research is aimed at creating a new digital

“sixth sense” for humans.

via TED: MIT Students Turn Internet Into a Sixth Human Sense — Video | Epicenter | Wired.com.

MIT SENSEable City Lab

MIT SENSEable City Lab.